Manchester City Council and Far East Consortium have received planning approval for their outline application for the regeneration of the Red Bank neighbourhood, a part of the £4bn Victoria North housing scheme.
The joint venture has received approval from the council’s planning office for two planning applications comprising 4,800 new homes alongside commercial and leisure facilities.
The first application approved consists of up to 3,250 homes and 160,000 sq ft of non-residential space, including commercial uses, a health centre, a primary school, residential amenities and community spaces.
Alongside the outline planning application, FEC has also received planning approval for three plots on Dantzic Street, adjacent to its existing 634-home Victoria Riverside scheme.
The second phase of development will expand the scheme by 1,550 homes through the construction of seven buildings of between six and 34 storeys.
It will comprise a mix of one, two and three-bed flats and townhouses to be delivered on a build-to-rent, affordable and open-market-sale basis.
The scheme designed by Manchester-based architect Hawkins\Brown and Maccreanor Lavington’s Rotterdam studio will also provide 20,000 sq ft of commercial and retail space alongside more public realm and improvements to the streetscape of Dantzic Street and Dalton Street, with tree planting, resurfacing, widened footpaths and new cycle lanes.
Red Bank is one of the seven neighbourhoods being regenerated as part of Victoria North, which will create 15,000 new homes over the next decade.
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